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The Plastics Industry Association (Plastics) announced two internal promotions to strengthen its sustainability and materials portfolios. Ashley Hood-Morley is now Senior Director of Sustainability and Materials, and Patrick Krieger is the Director of Sustainability and Materials. Hood-Morley will oversee all projects and programs related to Plastics’ materials, sustainability and recycling initiatives.
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With immediate effect, Jozsef Nemes has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery Hungária Kft. He succeeds Andras Borszeki, who headed up the Group’s Hungarian subsidiary since its formation in 2015. A trained mechanical engineer, Nemes recently moved from an Austrian injection moulding machine manufacturer
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As of May 1, Wolfgang Steinwender will take over as CEO of the successful Austrian plastics recycling machines manufacturer. His predecessor Josef Hochreiter will devote more time to the further development of Next Generation Holding. Despite the worldwide uncertainties due to Covid 19, NGR is convinced it can continue the successful
Read morePact Group Holdings Ltd announced the appointment of Mr Michael Wachtel as a non-executive Director of the Company, effective 21 April 2020. Michael is currently a Board member of the Future Fund, Seek Limited and St Vincent’s Medical Research Institute. Michael has previously held a number of leadership roles in professional
Read moreThe Plastics Industry Association (Plastics) announced three new executive appointments: Glenn Anderson, vice president, industry relations and member engagement as of April 6; Matt Seaholm, vice president of government affairs; and Brendan Thomas, vice president of advocacy and voice. Both Seaholm’s and Thomas’ roles take effect on April 15. “We are
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Holland Colours NV, producer of colour concentrates for the polymer industry, announced that Tanja van Dinteren has been nominated as the new CFO. She will join the company on June 1, 2020. The official appointment of Tanja van Dinteren will take place by means of nomination to the shareholders at the
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As of 1 April 2020, Prof. Andrea Büttner is the new Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising. Prof. Büttner joined Prof. Horst-Christian Langowski as Co-Director of the Institute on 1 November 2019, and now takes over the full role as Executive Director following
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Dr Frank Stieler will resign from his office as CEO of KraussMaffei Group GmbH on March 31, 2020 and Dr Michael Ruf, present COO of the company, will take over the position from April 1, 2020. The COO position will not be taken again. Since 2018 KraussMaffei Group GmbH is part
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Sacmi is pleased to announce the addition of Mr Nadeem Amin who will be committed to support customers in the North America PET Preform market. Mr Amin brings over 30 years of experience in the PET preform business and will be a key asset in supporting customers with manufacturing solutions. His
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Illig Maschinenbau has appointed Carsten Strenger (50) to the position of Managing Director as of February 17, 2020. Beginning April 1, 2020 he will succeed Karl Schäuble (68), who has held this position for more than 30 years. Mr Strenger will be responsible for production operations and business administration. Dr Heinrich
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Sebastian Dombos is the new head of sales at the Engel Deutschland Nuremberg location. This personnel decision sees the injection moulding machine manufacturer and system solution provider, headquartered in Schwertberg, Austria, prepare the generation change in the board of the subsidiary with foresight. Sebastian Dombos joined the company on 1st of
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